Notes for: Herbert Edward FOSKETT
1901 Living at Western Rd, Tring with parents and siblings.
2nd Lieutenant, 5th Battalion Bedford Regiment. Died on war service. Home at time of death, High Street, Tring.
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Probate: 28 Jul 1917 Herbert Edward Foskett of High St, Tring, 2nd Lieut,
5th Battalion Bedford Regt. Died 28 Apr 1917 in France.
Ex: Herbert Foskett, bootmaker
Value of Estate: £178.4s.6d
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Name inscribed on War Memorial in Tring and commemorated at Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
From the Tring War Memorial Site:
Second Lieutenant, 5th Bedfordshire Regiment, formerly with the Hertfordshire Regiment. Enlisted in September 1914. Killed in action on 28 April 1917. Age 24. Son of Mary and the late Herbert of Western Road. Arras Memorial.
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BAPTIST CHURCH
AKEMAN ST
TRING
HERTFORDSHIRE
ENGLAND
SP 920 110
IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF / THE MEN FROM THIS CHURCH / WHO LAID DOWN THSIR LIVES IN THE / GREAT WAR 1914-1918
Herbert E Foskett
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PARK GARDENS
TRING
HERTFORDSHIRE
ENGLAND
SP 920 110
ABOVE GATE: MEMORIAL GARDEN ON GATE POSTS: (...) (NAMES)
MEMORIAL GARDENS WITH WOODEN GATES SUPPORTED BY BRICK GATEPOSTS. IRON ARCH WITH INSCRIPTION IN GOLD LETTERING IS ABOVE THE GATES
Herbert Edward Foskett
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From Bedfordshire Regt Website:
2/Lt Herbert Edward FOSKETT
Killed in action 28th April 1917, aged 24.
Herbert trained with the 5th Battalion but was attached to the 6th Battalion when he fell. He arrived with the 6th in France on 16th April 1917 with 3 other Lieutenants; 3 of them were killed on the 28th April and the other 1 was wounded on the 24th April, hence survived the carnage of the 28th. On the 28th April, the Battalion attacked Greenland Hill for the second time in a few days but only 58 men survived the carnage of their attack. Herbert was the son of Mary Foskett of Western Road in Tring, Herts, and the late Herbert Foskett.